[Oe List ...] Poem: It's in the Air

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Priscilla, Donna (and colleagues),
     The wonderful poem sent less than an hour ago was the first thing I saw 
after opening my e-mail.   I was coming from a brief moment in my meditation 
corner where I had just just read and re-read these four lines from a Navajo 
chant:

"The mountains, I become part of it...
The herbs, the fir tree, I become part of it.
The morning mists, the clouds, the gathering waters,
I become part of it..."

     It's from the beginning of the first section, The Ecological Self, of a 
thick little book about 5 1/2 inches square, "Earth Prayers from Around the 
World:   365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earth,"   compiled 
by Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon (Harper Collins).   My brother Fred 
gave it to me 13 years ago, and I found it this morning as I unpacked three more 
boxes from the endless piles sitting there since our move a month and a half 
ago from Wilmington, DE to Chincoteague Island, VA.   The minute I found it, I 
resolved to re-read it.
     While I'm at it, I'd like to share another amazing little book that I 
finished last night--couldn't put it down:   Steve Farber's "The Radical Leap:   
A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership."   It's nothing we don't know, but 
for an introvert like me, it was a call to action.   After 3 published books 
and 8 years running the Rutgers Urban Literacy program in Camden, NJ in the 
90's, am I going to get my act together and really share, with a world that needs 
it desperately, what I've learned about literacy simplication?   Or is my new 
business, Literacy Acceleration Consultants, going to sit in my (very small) 
Shore Bank account and go nowhere, while I unpack boxes, play solitaire, read, 
meditate in my quiet corner, go to Kiwanis meetings on Thursdays, and teach a 
2 1/2 hour GED class twice a week?
    Thanks, Priscilla and Donna, for sharing Warren Molton's profound poem 
about the Oneness of Spirit and life that, much to my consternation, has 
catalyzed some cathartic sharing (should I really send this?) and a call for 
collegial accountability (yikes!) that was the furthest thing from my mind and will 
when I started writing this.   The hardest part is pushing the Send button.
Grace and Peace,
Lucille

Lucille Tessier Chagnon
6448 Arbor Lane
P O Box 438
Chincoteague Island, VA 23336-0438
website:   www.teachtwo.net
lifeline248 at aol.com   (chagnon at comcast is defunct)
757-336-5047
      fax     -1391



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